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White Dog at Sunset, 2023, Oil on linen

White Dog at Sunset, 2023

Oil on linen

52 x 70 inches
132.1 x 177.8 cm

Sean Landers -  - Viewing Room - Petzel Gallery

Sean Landers (b. 1962, Palmer, MA)

Sean Landers is a painter and multimedia artist living and working in New York. Landers received his MFA from Yale University School of Art in 1986 and his BFA from Philadelphia College of Art in 1984. From confessions poured out in weblike formations on legal pads to revisions of Hogarth paintings and lonely clowns at sea, Landers’s artworks span an enormous breadth of subjects and touch on existential themes.  Landers has exhibited widely and had solo exhibitions at Le Consortium, Dijon, France (2020); greengrassi, London (2020); Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium (2019); Ben Brown Gallery, Hong Kong (2019); Capitain Petzel, Berlin (2016); Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo (2015); Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, (2010); and the Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland (2004).

His work has been included in exhibitions at the Musée Magritte, Brussels (2017); ICA, Miami (2017); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2016); Deichtorhallen Hamburg (2015); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2013); New Museum, New York (2013); DESTE Foundation, Athens (2013); Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa (2011); Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson (2011); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2011); Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany (2009); Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams (2009); Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, France (2009); White Columns, New York (2008); Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland (2008); 4th Berlin Biennial, Germany (2006); and MoMA PS1, Long Island City (2006).

His works are included in public collections including the Tate Modern, London; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Fundación/Colección Jumex, Mexico City; Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany; The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; and The Brooklyn Museum, New York; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg; Seattle Art Museum, Washington; Denver Art Museum, Colorado; Walker Art Center, Minnesota; and The Kistefos Museum and Sculpture Garden, Jefnaker, Norway, among many others.

Sean Landers -  - Viewing Room - Petzel Gallery
Sean Landers in the studio. Image from Juxtapoz Magazine.

 

 

.I want the entire thing to be a well-rounded picture of who I am creatively by the end 

Everything I make is  in some way going back into my own history and picking up threads

and combining them in new ways. The way I look at it is, I have created a system or an

.instrument that is generative and enjoy using that system or machine to generate new things

.That’s where my true joy is as an artist

Three of the same sized paintings of a forest of trees with text scrawled into the bark is shown hanging side by side in an art fair booth.

Sean Landers, ADAA Art Show, 2018

Installation view

Three of the same sized paintings of text and doodles on yellow note paper are shown hanging side by side.

Sean Landers, Petzel Gallery, 2018

Installation view

Four paintings of various American animals with tartan patterned fur hang side by side: a mountain goat, a boar, a coyote with a crow, and a horse.

Sean Landers: North American Mammals, Petzel Gallery, 2014

Insallation view

Paintings of a bookshelf and various animals with tartan patterned fur hang side by side; a jaguar, a hare, a fawn, and a monkey

Sean Landers: North American Mammals, Petzel Gallery, 2014

Insallation view

Sean Landers: 1991-1994, Improbable History, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, 2010  Installation view

Sean Landers: 1991-1994, Improbable History, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, 2010

Installation view

Sean Landers, Kunsthalle Zurich, 2004  Installation view

Sean Landers, Kunsthalle Zurich, 2004

Installation view